Medicine: Flukes & Missionary

In Korea a fluke, a small flat leaflike worm, laid its minute eggs in a
creek. The eggs got into a snail. A fish ate the snail. Rev. Ralph
Thurber, missionary, ate the fish without thorough cooking. The flukes
wandered through his body until they reached his viscera where they
nested. Result: last week Mr. Thurber, 37, was in Cleveland's City
Hospital, an emaciated cynosure of neighboring medical eyes. They had
never before seen a case of fluke.* Mr. Thurber was obliged to
diagnose his own case, explain its etiology, show the deep scars...